Ashland County, Ohio

Denominational Groups, 2000

6,407	11,824	1,698	1,885	5	30,704
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	% Change
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	0	+500	100.0%
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	0	+283	6.6%
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+193	109.0%
Brethren Church, The (Ashland, Ohio)	Evangelical Protestant	+1	+97	15.5%
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	0	+97	n.a.
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+48	87.3%
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	+39	33.6%
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	0	+37	5.6%
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	0	+29	25.4%
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3	2.8%
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	+3	0.7%
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	0	+1	0.1%
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	0	+1	1.9%
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	0	-16	-1.9%
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	0	-22	-9.3%
Churches of God, General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	0	-28	-51.9%
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	0	-29	-6.7%
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	0	-50	-30.5%
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	-1	-72	-71.3%
Old Order Amish Church	Evangelical Protestant	+4	-134	-15.8%
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	0	-171	-33.1%
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	0	-255	-23.6%
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	-2	-272	-54.4%
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	0	-533	-52.5%
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	0	-586	-11.2%
Catholic Church	Catholic	+1	-634	-25.2%
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	0	n.a.	n.a.
	Totals:	+4	-1,471	-6.9%

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1990 was 47,507; in 2000 it was 52,523. The total population changed 10.6%. The adherent totals for 1990 (21,780) represent 45.8% of the 1990 population. The adherent totals for 2000 (21,819) include 41.5% of the 2000 population. The totals represent the change in groups that reported in both 1990 and 2000 only. There is sufficient data for 26 groups to calculate 1990-2000 change. These 26 groups had 21,434 adherents in 1990 and 19,963 adherents in 2000, for a change of -6.9%

Sources

The 2000 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and includes statistics for 149 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Dale E. Jones, Sherri Doty, Clifford Grammich, James E. Horsch, Richard Houseal, Mac Lynn, John P. Marcum, Kenneth M. Sanchagrin and Richard H. Taylor supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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